Title IX was enacted in 1972 as an effort to create more educational opportunities for women.

The main text of Title IX, before decades of amendments, additions, and Supreme Court cases, simply says this:

"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

First of all, let's acknowledge that plenty of bad laws were written in the 1960s and 1970s that cause us problems today: the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Higher Education Act, the Hart-Cellar Act, the creation of the EPA and OSHA, the expansion of Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare, and, of course, the cherry on top - Roe v. Wade. These two decades of sheer liberalism and government expansion are the reason for “Reagan’s Revolution” of the early 1980s.

So while many lawyers are working within the parameters of Title IX to protect women’s sports, it doesn’t mean that Title IX was ever a good law to begin with. As with many policies in our country, what started small with good intentions grew to something dangerous and untenable.

So when I speak up in defense of men’s sports, some of you will say, “Well, that’s not what Title IX provides. It only works to benefit women, not men.”

But are we okay with that? Are we happy with what Title IX has come to mean in our society?

While the law’s intent was to overcome "disparities" by giving women more opportunity in academics and sports, it’s become a burden with layers of bureaucracy and expense that are doing little to protect men or women at this point. If men can go into women’s bathrooms and punch them in the face, and females can play football and wrestle men, then why do we have this stupid law in the first place?

Most people think of Title IX as simply making sure colleges have a men’s and a women’s basketball team. However, we now spend more than $200 million per year on Title IX-related administration and compliance, not to mention the thousands of employees who are paid to work as coordinators at the college level… filling out paperwork, investigating claims, and so on. If death by bureaucracy is possible, Title IX is a killer.

Further, I would argue that Title IX has created an “allegation” culture amongst young women who know they can use fictitious harassment claims to punish male peers, teachers, and coaches for minor grievances or illegitimate reasons. I am not saying that all sexual harassment claims are false. They should be investigated, and there should be harsh consequences for all people who harass or abuse others, via our regular justice system. But in my 20+ years in education, I have seen females at the high school and college level, and even higher education co-workers admit to weaponizing false or flimsy accusations to harm the males around them. This phenomenon is enabled by Title IX… where everything is geared to protect women (or men pretending to be women). No one has regard for the (real) men who are getting trampled upon every day.

As the media was covering the Sophie Cunningham statements this summer, I realized the parallel between the Title IX conundrum and the recent Fourteenth Amendment case before the Supreme Court. Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment are eerily similar these days.

Both laws were created during a specific historical context in an effort to provide equality where there was a true lack: defining citizenship for recently freed slaves, giving academic and athletic opportunity to women where there had historically been almost none.

Over time, the laws became twisted and expanded to mean something they were never intended to mean. Now the Fourteenth Amendment means a Chinese couple can pay a surrogate to deliver a baby in Puerto Rico, bring the baby back to China, raise him as a communist, and send him back to the U.S. as a citizen thirty years later to vote in our elections. Similarly, Title IX has turned into men pretending to be women and smashing volleyballs into female opponents' faces and women falsely accusing men of harassment to leverage power.

It’s time to abolish, amend, or simply uphold both laws to mean only what they were intended to mean. Unfortunately, the challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment failed at the Supreme Court, so it’s time for conservatives to decide what’s next.

Likewise, Title IX has outlived its usefulness. Women make up 60% of the college population and 52% of the white-collar work force. Our men are struggling, and yet we don’t have the government (over)reaching to help them. If we could abolish Title IX tomorrow, we might lose a women’s college tennis or swim team here or there, but the ladies will be fine. Women are here to stay—in college, in athletics, and in the work force. We don’t need the government coddling us.

However, the path to overturn Title IX is nearly impossible at this point. That doesn’t mean conservatives shouldn’t be looking for an opportunity. The right loophole or the right court case could come along. In the meantime, we should be fighting for local and state-level solutions to keep men and women, boys and girls, on separate sports teams, to punish real harassment to the full extent of the law, and to also justly punish false accusations.

The one thing we should not do is sit around and twiddle our thumbs, saying, “Well, that’s just not what Title IX does.” Title IX is another legacy of rotten 1970s policy, and I suggest we use all of the political and legal power available to challenge Title IX before it’s too late.